Solaris™ 8 Advanced System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition

Preparing to Set Up Mail Services

You can set up a mail service relatively easily if your site does not provide connections to electronic mail services outside of your company or if your company is in a single domain. Setting up complicated sites with multiple domains is beyond the scope of this book. Chapter 2, “Customizing sendmail Configuration Files,” contains information about how to create the more complicated configuration files required for sites with multiple domains.

Mail requires two types of configurations for local mail and a third for communication with networks outside of your domain. These configurations can be combined on the same ...